752929 - Many add-ons listed for mobile are not compatible with mobile

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 744555

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Attachment: Nightly (05/08) - Screenshot

bug 697786 added support for Native Android add-ons on AMO. Currently when a user accesses AMO on a fresh install of Firefox Aurora (and very soon to be Beta) the user will see zero add-ons available. See screenshot.

* Tapping 'View all Featured add-ons' listed nothing.
* Tapping 'Newest' lists the add-ons (separate issue with a plethora of mislabelled desktop add-ons here)
* Tapping 'Highest Rated' yields the same result as above.

Expose add-ons by default on access to the market without the need for the user to wonder why none are listed and guess where they tucked under.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

The other option is defaulting the tab to 'Popular'.

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

We should mark some add-ons as "featured" for Android.  Here are a couple of add-ons that are "featured" for XUL Fennec and are also compatible with Android:

* Phony
* URL Fixer

Hopefully there will be more soon.

Comment 3

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck) from comment #2)
> We should mark some add-ons as "featured" for Android.

See also bug 744555.

Comment 4

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

The original bug is a duplicate of bug 744555.  I'm not sure what the new summary means but I'd suggest a new bug...?

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is not an exact dupe of 744555, the first bullet is. The other two are essentially addons are spamming compatibility. For example https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/cutebuttons-crystal-svg/ claims to be compatible with Firefox mobile XUL and Native.

Comment 6

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #5)
> This is not an exact dupe of 744555, the first bullet is. The other two are
> essentially addons are spamming compatibility. For example
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/cutebuttons-crystal-svg/
> claims to be compatible with Firefox mobile XUL and Native.

A good reason to have separate bugs for separate topics. :)

If Jorge wants to reopen the bug and take it, it's his call.  If there is something for dev to do, let me know, but as far as I know this is something to be handled by policy/reviewers.

Comment 7

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

I removed Android compatibility for the CuteButtons add-on. If you know of other add-ons that are incorrectly labelled as supporting native mobile, please file a bug with the list.